Linux Libertine
Linux Libertine is a font for computers that is open source and free in the sense of the GPL; it is dual licensed under the OFL. It belongs to the Libertine Open Fonts Project that aims at creating free and open type fonts to give users the alternative to commercial fonts like Times Roman. It is being developed with the free font editor FontForge.[1]
Linux Libertine is a serif proportional font with the look of a 19th century book type, though it has been developed for today usability. It contains more than 2000 characters in Unicode, including support for many different languages of the western Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew typeset. Additionally it offers several ligatures (such as ff, fi, ct, …) and has special characters like IPA characters, arrows, floral symbols, Roman numbers, oldstyle numbers, small capitals etc. The implementation of OpenType allows automatic positioning and substitution like for true fractures, ligatures and kerning.
As of 2006, the following faces are available in TTF, OTF and Source code:
- Regular
- Bold
- Italic
- Bolditalic
- Underlined
- Small capitals
See also
- ↑ Bruce Byfield (2006): Linux Libertine Open Fonts offers free Times Roman alternative, http://www.linux.com/articles/56565